Fruit ‘N Filbert Pork Chops is easily my favorite recipe from A Treasury of Prize Winning Filbert Recipes, transforming a usually bland and dry pork loin into a delicious weeknight meal. The fruit is arguably central to the flavor profile, but the recipe still showcases the toasty bitterness of roasted hazelnuts. It’s also deliciously old……
Ingredient: dry white wine
Sous Vide Rolled Lamb Breast
Sous Vide Rolled Lamb Breast pays tribute a time when lamb was a budget cut. Beef for the penny-pincher. Lamb consumption in the United States is on a decades long decline. The average twenty-first century American consume just a single pound per year. Now my family members probably average a pound of lamb per……
Long Grain Pistachio Risotto (adapted from Private Collection, Junior League of Palo Alto, 1980)
Long Grain Pistachio Risotto was a recipe born of necessity. Last Saturday I found some beautiful scallops at my local Asian market and made an impulse buy for Sunday dinner. I needed a couple of good sides to round out the meal. After ruling out pasta, polenta, and pilaf I remembered a risotto dish from……
Chicken with Fresh Pears Stir-Fry (adapted from Sunset Wok Cook Book (1989))
Chicken with Fresh Pears is an enjoyable summertime stir-fry perfect for weeknights. If you’re looking for traditional Chinese cuisine look elsewhere. This dish, along with many others in Sunset Wok Cook Book (1989), falls squarely in the old school Americanized stir-fry tradition. Stir-frying is an ingenious technique that works well with almost any set……
Shrimps alla Fra Diavolo (adapted from The Mystery Chef’s Never Fail Cook Book, 1949)
Shrimps alla Fra Diavolo is a foolproof pasta dish fancy enough for company but easy enough for a weeknight. Like all recipes in The Mystery Chef’s Never Fail Cook Book (1949), success is a function of the recipe, not the chef. Aside from basic knife skills and a little bit of patience, this delicious dish……
White Fish in Wine Sauce (adapted from Sunset Cook Book, 1949)
White Fish in Wine Sauce captures the West Coast vibe of the Sunset Cook Book, a colorful warm-weather meal that dresses up fresh seafood with vibrant Spanish flavors. Delicate and filling, casual and elegant, and only takes an hour or so start to finish. It seems like a perfect weeknight dinner for the California coast, served outdoors……
Gelman’s Chicken Amore (adapted from Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee, 1994)
The quintessential recipe from Cooking with Regis & Kathie Lee is Gelman’s Chicken Amore. For the uninitiated, Gelman is Regis’ nickname for Live… Producer Michael Gelman. Producers are typically behind-the-scenes sorts of folks, but Regis went out of his way to bring Gelman into the spotlight. Gelman had been working with Regis since he was an……
Noisettes de Porc aux Pruneaux (Oregon, 1974, adapted)
Noisettes de Porc aux Pruneaux is an elegant, uncomplicated dish from the Portland (Oregon) Junior League’s 1974 cookbook, No Regrets. English speakers can easily deduce “Pork” and “Prunes” from the title. The word Noisettes literally means hazelnuts, but in this context Noisettes de Porc translates roughly as “pork medallions”. The recipe seems to have roots in……
Peanut Chicken Thighs (adapted from Eating In, 1986)
One of the more approachable recipes from Eating In is Peanut Chicken Thighs – a simple recipe built mostly from pantry staples that can be on the table in around 45 minutes. The original recipe calls for the full chicken leg – drumstick with thigh attached – but this is a hard cut to find……